Friday, December 4, 2009
AFTER FELOWSHIP
After long time I am posting...........
Relay I had and spend wonderful time in "DESHPANDE FELLOWSHIP" program and learn t and experimented lot many things
Some of the important work I did and learn t........
- Nature of social entrepreneurship VS NGO concept
- How to use tech(IT) in working place or in our own social venture
- Managerial Communication
- How to deal with RURAL INDIA
- Identifying problem with solution
- How to build Global and local Connections
- Event Management
- Fund raising for cause
- Project preparation, Accounting and financial management
- Entrepreneurial activities
- Revenue model identification
- Business plan preparation (I and my team build BP for Career Guidance Center)
- Marketing
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Hints about all the sectors like Health, Education, Agriculture, livelihood etc
still several modules I learn t during the program these all are important ones
after fellowship what happened to me......... wait and see
Monday, June 29, 2009
Creativity in IT !!! IT!!!
Are you ready to read this,
Do you think blog writing is an event or media writing ?
No Never its not exactly writing an event as you write a note..................... ok have look below!!!
On 29th Jun 2009 morning class engaged by Mr. Badrinath about IT. This class whole about creativity in blogging how to put the 'individual first conception about event or activity in to world or picture' the main concept behind this is because of any distraction 'don't miss or live your creativity. In the same way how to visualize the idea.
Process starts like this,
* Draw the pictures of words
like I am God etc
*Question-Answering - Relating both
*Story completion
Through All the activity he made us to go on, go on deeper in to our own thought process about the thing.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Street Play

We all Deshpande Foundation Fellows celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March with new initiative.
The main objective of this one day campaign was to encourage women to ask for their rights, sensitization of men and boys to stop discrimination and violence against women and give equal respect to all women and girls and secure equal participation of women.

All fellows conducted 21 street play activities in different communities, villages, public places around Hubli-Dharwad District of Karnataka. In these programmes along with 18 fellows a mass of local


Guest Lectures:

On 20th February Mr. Ayyappa M.Masagi oriented us about his great work of water saving, harvesting and knowing the value of water and water resource.. His vision is to make water efficient Globe. Thousands of experiments have been done for rain water harvesting by Masagi. He has been awarded for this work as an Ashoka Fellow and many other national level awards. This journey was started in 1994 by researching rain Water harvesting methods in his own farms lands. In 2005 he started WLF Water literacy Foundation to make Nation water efficient. ‘Harnessing our

On 27th of February in my Deshpande Fellowship Program I attended an interactive session with Mr. Vivek Pawar, founder of Sankalp Semiconductors. Sankalp is one of the leading companies that design and manufacture chips and conductors for television, cell phone, digital camera, sound systems etc. Vivek formed this entreprise in 2005 in Bangalore and soon after one year it got settled up in Hubli at BVB Engineering College campus and became India’s first MNC that has its office in a college campus.He explained his life journey from schooling to M.Tech in electronics. He was an average student and not more
all DFP cohort 2 fellows with Mr. Vivek PawarDuring this session he gave many learning like; ‘Focus on the particular way where you can perform better and put all energy there in centralized way’. He told about ORIA (Observeà Reflectà IntrospectàApply/Action) that how to react on a goal to achieve that.
Meet with Mr. Paresh Choudhari Reliance in DCSE:

During his speech he appreciated social entrepreneurs. Around 100 audiences were presented in this moment.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 :Dr. J.K.Hiremath, founder of 'Manovikasa' started this organization in 1994 for special children (rehabilitation center for mentally retarded children). His daughter is the inspiration for starting this special school. She suffered from meningitis and died in the year 1994. This incident made him to run this school for special children. Dr. Hiremath visited Deshpande Foundation on 6 March as Guest Speaker and spent his valuable time with all DFP Cohort II fellows. He shared all about Manovikasa and his efforts.
Dr. Hiremath was working in an American organization resigned his job came to India & in 1994 he started a small day care center with two rooms from 10:30am to 4:30pm for mentally retarded children. This grew into a residential school by 2003.
Reasons for the development of mental retarded
Age of the mother
Mental & physical health of the mother & Genetic abnormalities
Mother’s addiction to drugs
Malnutrition
Half attempted abortion
Use of un prescribed drugs
Accidents & Epileptic attack by hormonal change
Forceps delivery (80%)
Alexia
Prolong delivery
Cesarean (2%) & Low birth
Functions of Manovikas
Being a neuro clinical psychiatrist Dr.Hiremath design the perfect residential arrangement for the mentally challenged children. He could also successfully design the activities of Manovikas. They are,
· Visiting the villages & building the awareness.This includes early identification, facilities available from the government, diagnosis & issue of certification.
· Convergence service. They have adopted 7 districts in Kanpur, each village is having some SHGs which helps in the taking care of the children, for this parents of the children are charged Rs2/-
· Upanayana. Here they train the parents as co-therapists. Different therapies will be given to the child. Like,
Hydro therapy
Sand therapy
Jump fit therapy
Multi sensory stimulation therapy
Squint correction therapy
Physiotherapy
Vita therapy
Speech therapy & Drooling therapy
· Special education system. Here level assessment of the children is done by check list. They follow the individual rehabilitation program (IRP), in which each child will be having its own curriculum. Basic knowledge like Time, Money, Writing name, Signature was taught to the students. For female domestic ability development program is also conducted. Music therapy, sports, yoga, dance is also part of the school activities.
· Residential service. They teach self help skills like, Toilet training specially reporting, eating, bathing, grooming, for female menstrual hygiene. They also take children for excursions.
· Achievements of school.
Gold medal in china in swimming
· Challenges face.
Meet the parents expectation
Rehabilitation of children in home
· Contact:Ph.-9243281756 e-mail:manovikasa@yahoo.com.
Advocacy:
As a part of our course module the ADVOCACY taken by 2 recourse persons namely Ms. UshaRani and Dr.Gopal Dabade, SDM Medical College. This advocacy is a people centered activity and good weapon to make public authority to work honestly. Both the class were very interesting they told their own work experience with advocacy what I understood by class.
What is the meaning of Advocacy?
To protect rights or change unfair discriminatory or insulting treatment to fair, equal, and humane treatment, To improve services, gain eligibility for services or change the amount or quality of services to better meet the needs of an individual and To remove barriers which prevent full access to full participation in community life.
10 Steps in Advocacy
· DEFINE THE PROBLEM—what is the issue? Who do you have the problem with?
· SPELL OUT THE SOLUTION—Define your goals. What do you WANT? Get a picture of VICTORY in your mind!
· DETERMINE YOUR RIGHTS—which department regulates what is going on? Locate and review the appropriate regulations and procedures. If you need assistance understanding the material, get help from someone who is informed. Ask for your rights, even if you can’t find the regulations to back you up.
· WHO WILL DETERMINE WHAT HAPPENS?—who makes the decisions?
· PREPARE YOUR CASE—Get your paperwork and documentation in order. Keep a notebook of phone conversations and correspondence. Plan a strategy. Try to separate feelings from facts.
· PLAN—Write an agenda. Practice presenting your case or problem to a friend or advocate.
· ACT—Make the phone call or write the letter. Be assertive NOT aggressive. State what you want and when you want it.
· EVALUATE YOUR RESULTS—what was the outcome? Will you need to follow-up? How do you feel about the results?
· FOLLOW-UP—Take any necessary follow-up steps. Decide what to do next.
· CELEBRATE—even small victories should be celebrated. Congratulate yourself for taking the steps to resolve your problem.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Right to Information Act,2005 Leads to Good Governance
- A Class by Thippanna & Ashutosh
Introduction:
Above said two instructors thought us RTI act with practical module in 3 days. I am very much happy to mention that these 2 fellows are our seniors in DCSE under DFP.
The Right to Information Act was enacted by Parliament in 2005. It is an effective weapon in the hand of public. We can call this act as base for other all acts. By hearing name of this RTI every Government organization will starts to shivering that may be Central, State government officers and who getting fund from government partially or completely it means every Indian citizen can get information from these offices 13 states are enforced this act in the year 2005(Kerala, Gujarat, Chattisgarh,Haryana,Punjab,Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Orissa and including Karanataka)
“Every shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any media of his choice.” .
This act calling as RTI act 2005 its commenced on 12th October 2005, it apply whole India except Jammu & Kashmir, according to this every information we can get apart from information, disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence etc this act bulk of 22 sections.
Some of the important sections:
· Section 4(1)(b) Sue-Muto (Organization self declaration with 17 points)
· 6(1) is file a application for specific information
· 18 complaint on concern person for refusal of application without providing proper information
“Every shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any media of his choice.”
From 3 days class I come to know the following matters relating to RTI.
· Universal access to information
· Right to information includes inspection of records, works and taking certified samples of material.
· “Information” includes that records, e-mails, samples and models.
· It covers all the public authorities, NGOs, private bodies which is getting fund by government
· PIO should provide information.
· No prescribed form for information.
· Reasonable fees (only for photocopies).
· P.I.O. has the duty to assists requesters.
· No need to give reasons for requesting information.
· If Information concerns the life and liberty to be provided within 48 hours
· Information to be providing within 30 days of receipt of request.
· Public can directly make complaints and appeals to information Commission
Finally this act is very much important to access our individual rights. But about this education and awareness programme is required. It is a good platform to common man.
FORE MORE INFORMATION REFE:
Sunday, February 15, 2009
My New Learnings
We all know that ‘Health is wealth’ so I had class on 2nd February 2009 about Public Health and also it was my first Module session in my


One Session with Founder of DCSE
We had session with Gururaj Desh , CEO of US besed Sycamore Inc and Founder of Dheshpande Foundation.Desh started his interaction by using local language(Kannada) mainly he focused on innovative solutions to the social challenges would take the country towards list of developed country’s. He also said that students should pledge to search of creative ideas to the burning challenges that have been affecting the nation's growth. This will definitely lead a sustainable change in the country's economyMainly he focused on that scaling, innovation, and entrepreneurship
were three most in essential parameters in taking the fast track.
Last he told that Hubli city was opening up itself to the developments. He asked students to choose Hubli to make it a model city.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Talk with former President, Dr A.P.J Kalam



He hoped that DCSE and BVB College would take the initiative of forming a “PURA” complex near Hubli. He mainly focused on creative leadership which is essential for economic development and hoped it would create an atmosphere conducive to produce leaders from among the youths of this region. He mentioned Prof.Wangari Mathai, Ottavo Kapachi and S.Ramanujam’s examples to the youths and entrepreneurs. Kalam referred to the success of “Chandrayaan” of ISRO and elaborated on the hard work behind it.
I am really happy to be a part of Deshpande Foundation because it is very easy to meet wonderful personalities from national and international and talk with them. I am so grateful to Deshpande Foundation for providing such opportunities. And I request my foundation to give this opportunity to some more students in future.
The same day we met some other personalities like
· Narayan Murathi- Infosys
· Sudha Murathi- Infosys
· Manivannan- District Commissioner of Mysore
LETTER TO MY SELF

Savita
Sub: When I interacted with my self
Dear Savita,
Hey, Hello… Hello……….. Savita, what are you doing here? Are you mad? You had a good job, good position, handsome salary in your previous organization. Why you left the job? And here you are learning like a student and working restless you are big fool.(so several time peoples asked this question to me)

Same time my one more inner voicewhispered that hey fool stop your question, and baseless arguments. Think pakka practically having good salary having good job is does not stuff having practical, competitive and sensible knowledge is very important ok…..
Hey see I joined this foundation just two days back and how I am getting things in induction only. Definitely I will show you what I am within six months. Do you know what I have already this is not enough for work in developmental sector minimum I have to have 50% acquaintance/social contact where I want work.
Just I entered in this foundation see how the things, attitudes, and my personality is waiting for healthy change in me.
Do you know I don’t want to be a beneficiary of DFP I want to be a partner of this DFP and contributor to social change.
To achieve this goal, to see an clear picture about me I am ready to face any challenges and any kind of work assigning to me here. Don’t disturb me again & don’t ask me these question ones more.
Bye…………………………….
My Aim and Dream: I want to become great IDEAL in this world. I want to start my own Enterprise/NGO after working some time in a funding organization.
For this I am already saving Rs. 500/- pm from last 2 years in a separate Bank Account.
My Step Towords Village
First day we visited to Gram chetan at Surashettikoppa, it is greenery and covered by trees. Mr. Deepak Kshira Sagar introduced about Gram chetan & he has shared his experience about people participation. He said that Building participation of people is very important tuff job. It is not easy task. Initially they have countenanced more problems to work with people. While selecting the people they didn’t have any restriction. With support of community they built check dam at Harugera. He shared other examples also with us.
After completion of orientation by BIFE Project Coordinator our team stepped towards Kampalikoppa to conduct PRA. The villagers have welcomed us very different way, applying color turmeric powder & turmeric powder (Traditional way). We have divided our entire in to 5 groups. Each team got different activity like Resource mapping, Seasonality Mapping for income & migration, Venn diagram, FGD on milk production, Matrix ranking for composting. And conducted Time line on sanitation. Finally we got some 50% idea about PRA. After that I moved with my coworkers I have been in Resource mapping group. We did the resource map about natural resources of the village with support of villagers. The drawn map indicated that the village having enough NR.
Village Stay: As a part of our course we visited to Naganur Panchayat.
Introduction:

‘Nagnur’ means village of snakes. We got different stories from the people regarding village history. One of the elders said that the village was called Laxmipura after that it changed to Yalghatigi Nagnur and Nagnur. Other sources said that some body found Nagalinga in the village long back that is why villagers named Nagnur.
Team 5star conducted activities:
ž Transact walk
ž Anganvadi Visit
ž School Visit
ž Discussion with Director of Mahasangha
ž Visited Fields
ž Social Mapping
ž Time Line
ž Resource Mapping
Transect Walk at “Naganur"
On 11th Feb 2009 in the morning we went to Nagnur which is comes under Kalaghatagi Taluk, by walk it is 2km from Grama chetan, tar road is destroyed. On the way we saw ground nuts, cotton crop, and sugarcane & sunflower crops in field. When we entered in to the village Coconut trees welcomed us to village in front of every house. We met some youths & Key persons few of them helped us for transect walk. We observed that houses are built very systematically in proper way. In the entrance of the village we have seen the plat “Government Asharaya Yojana “Houses. Roads are very big and space able. Majority of the houses are Kachha houses.
When we entered in to the village people were busy with their works. They were waiting for bus at Basavan temple, some people were going to the field, and others are having tea at hotel & children were playing in front of community hall. We catch the one local person called Shivappa and we continued our TW. There are 5 temples in the village; Basavan , Devamamman , Hanuman Durgamman temple and one mosque. Education system concern there is a primary school, Anganwadi and institutions concern community hall, Milk Dairy, Panchayath office.
Village was hygienic. Everyone has drawn eye-catching rangoli in front of their houses. It shows their indigenous familiarity, local customs & practices. Rapport building was main challenge for us. As soon as we entered the village we make the first move for rapport building.
When we met people our team members were saying “ Namskara “ to villagers. We clearly explained them reason for entering to their village. Afternoon we visited one land which was very greenery we collected some information regarding soil and crops.
It was the late evening when we started our activities because people still returning from the fields. Later we gathered the people for social mapping and Time line map.
For collecting secondary data we have visited Anganwadi, Panchayt, Milk Dairy, and Mahasangha & Village Accountant. The total population of the village is 1390 in this 686 male & 704 female. The voters are 891. Village composed with 360 families. In this one house is Pakka remaining all houses are kachha. Big formers are 5, Medium formers are 132 & small formers are 172. The total land is 1982.2 Hectors. For detail information you can see below table
FGD:

Social Map

Time Line
Our team has decided to draw the time line map. Mainly our targeted group was women and we called them traditional way putting KUNKUM on their forehead. And we did time line comparative study between situations in 1970 periods and now. Before 1970 the cholera, pelage & T.B like that disease was there. But, now AIDS, Cancer & Chicken gunny. Everyone believed on Ayurvedic treatment. Before 1970 they didn’t have hospital facility, Toilets, Pure water facility, Transport facility & Schools. Now they have school so every child getting literacy, they are growing other crops like suppota trees & mango trees, everything has changed the ladies didn’t not know about bank but now they can easily do bank transaction. Like that there village has changed
Resource Mapping :
The Resource map has helped us to learn about community & its resource base. To learn the villagers perception of what natural resource are found in the community and how they are using. We started in the next day morning after gathering people we have introduced about resource map we have given rangoli powder to draw. We also took care about involving people. They have drawn water source, different type of soils, Hills, roads, lake, & grazing land.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Vocational Training For Childern
Child Centered Activities
Leaders: Latha.k and Malini
Follower: Savitha and Gayathri
It was 12:30pm when we reach balakiyara balamandira in gantikeri. It is a beautiful place. We met Mrs.Kankanur who is the in charge of that balamadira. She explained us about balamandira it has 130 girl children out of them. Some are orphan, some are Child delinquency. When we told her, we came to teach children some activities and wish to follow up it in following days she felt happy and provided us two classrooms.
we selected 7th, 8th and 9th students for activity that is paper bag making. we started teaching the activity it went for 1hr, children with enthusiasm. Children were happy and asked us to come again. While coming we met Mrs. Kankanur and presented few paper bag made by children’s she felt happy and appreciated our work, asked us to come again and teach many things to children.
Monday, February 2, 2009
My Ongoing Activities in DFP
25th January was Sunday but still we were on duty. In the afternoon I attended the class on ‘Development Dialogue’ Programme in DCSE. And we got committee wise work and I belongs to committee on CLASS ROOM ARRENGEMENT & NOTE TAKER. Because of this I learnt how to collaborate like this programme with help of the entire group.
In the same day evening we prepared some of the banners and posters. Why do you know? Because the next day was Republic Day for this purpose we all the fellows decided to conduct a Candle March Past with peace for this movement first we went to Police station to take permission after getting permission from concerned person. Around 6:45pm to 8:00pm surrounded the KITTUR CHENNAMMA CIRCAL with candle. And through this we make the people aware about Terrorism.
26th January 2009
This day was very special for me because I did my first Entrepreneurial activity in early morning 6:00am.with me Usha (My Co-fellow) came with me. We both of us soled around total 50 batch’s of Indian flag(50x5=250) and National flag (15x5=75).finally I got Rs.325/- but I have invested only Rs.65/- & got Rs.360/- Revenue.
In the evening made arrangements of class rooms for Development Dialogue Programme.
27th, 28th and 29th January 2009
We all fellows were participated in Development Dialogue Programme. For this programme so money delegates represented from Local, National & International level really it was very good opportunity for us to build network with all NGOs, Interaction with founders of the DCSE.
Main Events of which I was participated.
· Field Visits –Despande Nagar& Ranebennur with all the participants
· Making arrangements for case study analysis
· Note taking
· Guide the people to go respective class.
· Arrangements for seminars conducted by eminent personalities
· Participated in 4 case analysis as a note taker
· Experience sharing by SANDBOX FELLOWS Etc.
Really it was very good exposing for us.
30th January 2009.
In this day all fellows visited to Historical place called Hampi with all delegates but we four fellows were not visited so that we called to office by our Programme Manager Chinnababu. And we got class on how to create News Blurbs regarding in Sandbox by Account Ms.Medha and assignment to do 31.01.09 News Events.
31st January 2009
This day was very special for me because we had a class with founders of DCSE, Mr.Gururaj Deshpande and Ms.Jayasree Deshpande in this the participants were DCSE staff, Sandbox fellows and DFP fellows all had an opportunity to share their views and ideas towards DCSE Vision, Mission, Values, Core Values and Programmes it means in this environment is really giving a chance to all to contribute their ideas this made me some more confident about me.
In the same day in classroom our co-fellow, Mr Laxmish has engaged class on News Blurbs with the support of Me, Malini and Chandru Lamani. After this the class engaged by PM about group formation for Guest lecturer and other topics.
1st Feb 2009.
In the early morning we visited to Glass House near bus stand for create advocacy between people opinion and Government organizations. We mean Me, Laxmish as leaders and Usha&Latha as a follower. We had interaction with people who came for their yoga and mental peace. When we interacted with them they responded very positively and they also appreciated DCSE and DFP (us).In this park so many dustbin also there but the people are not using due to proper management. In one of the Board says that there is no entry to any kind of vehicles still we have seen there so money vehicles inside the park, there is no proper system for drinking water tap but The place of relief is changing in to dustbin so the people came forward to support us to intimate this factor to Government. This activity will continue……….
In night we all fellows red our reading materials which has provided by DCSE. Because the next day’s class on Public Health and Urban population Health.
2nd Feb 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Each Days Learning’s in DFP!!!!!!
Each Day Learning’s in DFP!!!!!!
23rd January 2009
24th January 2009,
Today I started my day with lap top why I am saying this matter is, in earlier days whenever I got-up from my bed I use to see ‘GOD’ but now LAPTOP to send a morning copy email to all my dear fellows and dear ones. Class started with …………..Guess which was? Ok yar I will tell you that was ‘BLOG’ Smiley face Mr Ashuthosh fellow of DFP Cohort I has thought us proficiently Blogging. And he has précised some assignments to us to build a network between us all fellows.
Afternoon session was started by Mr.VENUGOPAL Director of SVYM Mysore. He is a mind-blowing personality. He made us to create some slogans; we sang songs with him, we become more curious about social challenges.
In the evening I started my followership activity in DEVINAGAR at HUBALI with the initiative of Yogindar & Usha, Fellows of DFP Cohort II. We simply entered in to community we saw a three children’s and we interacted with kids, ask them to take three friends each kid. Before this we used one steel plate & spun by beating it children attracted & that movement was very beautiful because children’s are rushed towards us. And we make them to play Brain Storming games, and cultural activities
Friday, January 23, 2009
ORIENTATION PROGRAMME HEALD AT DFP

Inaugurated on 20th January& Its continues up to 22rd Junuary. Initially the programme was began with the ice breaking conducted by Programme Director after that induction by Mr.Naveen Jha, who is a director of ’Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship’. Programme Manager Chinnababu has inducted the fellows about ‘Policies Procedures’ of DFP. Afternoon session was concluded with Poster making by us. The evening session was started LEAD Program Officer and Leaders. Really LEAD programme activities are inspired me very much. Finally we had a dinner session with DCSF staff.
Second day orientation started with interaction with ‘SANDBOX’ Fellows they shared their stuffs what they are facing while working with an unknown area. This made me some more enthusiastic about this DFP. In the afternoon session we had presented our Posters. Through this I learnt how to sell knowledge our self. In the day we all the fellows visited to SUB-JAIL which is situated at Hubli. In this location we the fellows were dramatized awareness on Correctional Life and HIV/AIDS really those two drams are very sensible.
Third and Last day of the orientation program we visited ‘Akshaya Patra’ in the early morning and we come know that based on Fith how the organization become sustainable under one roof they are preparing food for 3 lack students in the early morning. And we had delicious food over there. In the afternoon we visited to ‘Agastya’ is situated at Glass House. It’s spreading scientific knowledge. Mr.Naveen Jha recharged us about ‘Agastya’. Finally the orientation programme was concluded with experience sharing by DFP Cohort-I fellows..........................